On Wednesday, 07 April 2004, at 13:31:13 (-0700), Christian Goetze wrote: > I don't disagree that there are other ways of doing this. My point > is that this spec file worked on rpmbuild 4.0.4, but fails on > rpmbuild 4.1.1. Obviously, somebody changed the way subpackages > were to be done. Fine, I just wished there was a way of knowing > this. This is just an _example_, reduced to a very small spec > file. My actual spec files are lot larger, and meanwhile, I have > rewritten them to not use subpackages anymore. %install <subpackage> doesn't make any sense. There's one %install just like there's 1 %build. You split the results out using %files, one for each subpackage. If it did work in 4.0.4, it was probably a fluke, and if it wasn't, it should have been. :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "What if I fell 15 stories? What if my weight wasn't enough to kill me? What if I were sticky enough to walk the ceiling? Maybe I could live through this." -- Mighty Joe Plum, "Live Through This" _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list